Hannah Ramer

Hannah Ramer is a teaching specialist and advisor in the Urban Studies program. Before joining the department, she was a Policy Research Fellow through the Minneapolis-St. Paul Long-Term Ecological Research (MSP-LTER) program. Her research has focused on the relationship between nature and wealth inequality in the Twin Cities, touching on urban history, planning, the environment, and the distribution of benefits and burdens. In addition to research, she is passionate about teaching and has taught classes on environmental policy, food systems, and urban agriculture at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College. Before graduate school at the U of M, Hannah spent several years working in environmental education, nonprofit program management, and small-scale farming in New York and Massachusetts.